In the past few decades, robotics research has witnessed an increasingly high interest in
miniaturized, intelligent, and integrated robots. The imperative component of a robot is the …

Many sensory systems in cells and organisms share a recurring property called fold-change
detection (FCD). FCD describes a system whose dynamics–including amplitude and …

Nature presents intriguing biological swimmers with innate energy harvesting abilities from
their local environments. Use of natural swimmers as cargo delivery agents presents an …

The physico-chemical processes supporting life's purposeful movement remain essentially
unknown. Self-propelling chiral droplets offer a minimalistic model of swimming cells and, in …

Bacterial microrobots are an emerging living material in the field of diagnostics. However, it
is an important challenge to make bacterial microrobots with both controlled motility and …

Biological microswimmers exhibit versatile strategies for sensing and navigating their
environment, such as run-and-tumble and curvature modulation. Here, we report a striking …

Developing efficient, sustainable microalgae harvesting methods is vital to enable
microalgae as renewable feedstock for food and functional nutrients. Conventional …

The mechanism by which living organisms seek optimal light conditions—phototaxis—is a
fundamental process for motile photosynthetic microbes. It is involved in a broad array of …

Microalgae have a high potential for application in different industries including renewable
energy production from light and atmospheric CO 2. Biotechnologies should provide high …

Understanding the out-of-equilibrium properties of noisy microscale systems and the extent
to which they can be modulated externally, is a crucial scientific and technological …